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Third sentence of Kabinettsklausur in Neuhardenberg: Im Trainingslager mit dem Kanzler, tagesschau.de, 26 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
The government must act quickly.
Word for word: The government must quickly into-the acting come.
Says the government needs to start taking action soon; common in news and political commentary.
A main clause in verb-second order: the subject 'die Regierung' is followed by the finite modal verb 'muss', then the adverb 'schnell', and the fixed expression 'ins Handeln kommen' with a zu-less nominalized infinitive 'Handeln' in the accusative inside the contraction 'ins'.
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Die Regierung muss
The finite verb 'muss' occupies the second position of the main clause after the subject phrase.
In a German main clause the finite verb is always the second element. The first element can be the subject, but it can just as easily be a time expression, an object or a whole subordinate clause; whatever it is, it counts as one element and the verb follows it. This is why putting something other than the subject first pushes the subject after the verb.
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muss ... kommen
'Müssen' governs a bare infinitive placed at the end of the clause.
The six modals können, müssen, dürfen, sollen, wollen and mögen say something about the main verb rather than naming an action. The modal is the finite verb in second position and the main verb goes to the end of the clause as an infinitive.
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Die Regierung muss
Third person singular subject takes the modal form 'muss'.
The finite verb takes an ending that matches its subject in person and number. The endings for regular verbs in the present are e, st, t, en, t, en.
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ins Handeln
Directional 'in' plus motion requires the accusative, here in the contraction 'ins'.
The accusative marks the direct object: the thing the action is done to. Only the masculine changes visibly, from der to den and from ein to einen, which is why the masculine is where accusative errors show.
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ins Handeln
'In' takes accusative when movement or change into a state is expressed.
An, auf, hinter, in, neben, über, unter, vor and zwischen take the accusative when the phrase answers where to, and the dative when it answers where. The distinction is movement across a boundary against position, not motion against stillness.
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Handeln
The verb 'handeln' is nominalized as a neuter noun, a productive German pattern.
German builds long nouns by joining shorter ones. The last part carries the gender and the plural, and everything before it modifies what follows, so a compound is read from the right.
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Words(7)
- der
the
determinerA1definite
Appears twice: dative feminine 'der Wirtschaft' and nominative plural 'die Beschlüsse'.
- die Regierung
government
nounA2pl. Regierungengen. Regierungmixed declension
- müssen
must, to have to
verbA1müssen, musste, hat gemusstmit habenmodal
The dependent infinitive goes to the end of the clause.
- schnell
quickly, fast
adverbA1modal
- ins
into the
prepositionA1governs accusative or dative
Contraction of 'in dem' is 'im'; 'ins' is always 'in das' (accusative).
- das Handeln
action, acting
nounB1pl. Handlungengen. Handelnsstrong declension
- kommen
to come
verbA1kommen, kam, ist gekommenmit seinstrong
Figurative here: the decisions should 'come', i.e. appear soon.